“Jesus is Lord.” This is the first and most essential confession of a follower of Jesus Christ. St. Paul wrote in Romans 10:9-10, “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes […]
David Bryant Inspiration, Parents
Are you training your children to be gritty? I spoke to the Grammar School students a while back about grit, which I defined for them as “sticking with it till the end, even when the going gets tough.” When I envision grit, I picture a cross country runner who is nearing the end of the […]
David Bryant Cultural context, Parents, The Christian Life
In a previous post I suggested a few ways parents can train up their children well by letting them struggle and even fail. One important goal of parenting is to prepare children for adulthood, and that means guiding them through hard times toward being more responsible and accountable. I would encourage all of you to […]
David Bryant Cultural context, Parents, The Christian Life
You love your children. That means you provide for them, nurture them, care for them. And you shelter them. You literally shelter your children by providing a home for them to live in. But you also shelter them from hardship and privation. Sometimes, though, “sheltering your children” is a criticism directed at parents who place […]
David Bryant CCE, Inspiration, Latin
There are a number of things that set a classical Christian education apart and make it unique. One of those things is the study of Latin and Greek. Providence students learn Latin for six years (4th-9th grades) and New Testament Greek for two years (10th-11th grades). These studies are important and valuable distinctives of a […]
David Bryant CCE, Holy Scripture, Providence Parents
Welcome to a new calendar year! As we enter 2024 together, I want to thank you for your commitment to providing a classical Christian education for your children and encourage you to stay the course. It’s mid-year, and that means we are deep in the winter when the days are short and the newness of […]
David Bryant Advent, Christmas
Dr. George Grant captures my feelings and thoughts about the Christmas season perfectly in an article titled “Gloria In Excelsis Deo.” I hope he does so for you as well. —– I love Advent. I love Christmas. I love Epiphany. I love all the holiday holy days. And I love everything that goes with them. […]
David Bryant Christmas, Providence Parents, Thanksgiving
God gets all the credit for every blessing Providence Classical Christian School has received. What do we have that we did not receive from our Heavenly Father through the grace of His Son Jesus Christ? The coming Christmas season is a time when we worship God for His greatest gift and then imitate Him by […]
David Bryant Advent, CCE, Christmas, The Christian Life
“Of course we celebrate Christmas. We’re a Christian school. We also say Christian things like, ‘God is love’ and ‘Jesus is Lord’ and ‘Sin is bad.’” We live in the kind of world where we have to say things like this. In recent years our culture has begun to devise an increasing number of ways […]
As we approach Advent and celebrate Thanksgiving, I remind us all that one of the most important invitations and commands that fills the pages of the Bible is to give thanks. And as I sometimes remind the students, we are to give thanks not “some of the time for some things” but “always for all […]